Born on October 15th

On this day in history, King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall (1520), Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve claims Montreal (1641), 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard (1860), Edison Electric Light Company incorporated (1878), Hemingway’s “To Have & Have Not” published (1937), and Legoland Florida (the world’s largest Legoland theme park) opens (2011).